Bottle-washer.



C. HAMANN.

BOTTLE WASHER.

APPLIU'ATION FILED Nov. 22, 1912.

-1,068,648. Patented Ju1y29,1913.

BY lx ATTORNEY CHARLES HAMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-WASHER.

Specieaton of Letters Patent.

Patented July 29, 1913.

Application filed November 22, 1912. Serial No. 732,949.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that l, CHARLES HAMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-VVashers, the following being a full, clear, and eXact disclosure of the one form of my invention which I at present deem preferable.

F or a detailed description of the present form of my invention, reference, may be had to the following specification and accompanying drawings forming a partthereof, in which- Figure 1 is a plan of my device and Fig.`

2 a side elevation thereof.

My invention relates to certain improvement-s on the apparatus shown in the patent of Charles l/V. Hamann, No. 995,596, dated June 20th, 1911, and consists in means for largely increasing the period in the rotation of the bottle carrier, wherein the bottles are rotated and scrubbed. Specifically l provide double overlapping and parallel belts for rotating the bottles and in conjunction therewith a scrubber consisting of an endless belt furnished with bristles and passing over two pulleys and over guide rollers so as to bring the belt into the arc of travel of the bottles.

Referring to the drawing, C represents a horizontal rotating table or carrier for the inverted bottles with pins P for receiving.

them, the bottles being cleansed internally by any desired means, such, for instance, as those shown in the aforesaid Patent No. 995,596. The table or carrier C is operated in any desired way from the main driving shaft A. Mounted above the said table or carrier are two horizontal pulleys lD and D1 around the peripheries of which is an endless brush-belt G. One side of this belt is distended by means of a guide comprising a series of rollers 7c mounted, in an arc concentric with the table or carrier C, on a bearing plate 701 adjustable along a bracket K. By this arrangement the brush belt travels over an arc concentric with the table or carrier for a space of approximately 90 degrees and the bottles, as they revolve with the table or carrier are for that length of space in contact with the brush-belt and are scrubbed thereby. In Fig. 1 four bottles 1, 2, 3 and l are shown as being simultaneously in engagement with the brush-belt G.

Outside of the table or carrier C is a vertical shaft L and a sprocket wheel m on the upper end of the shaft acts to drive one of the pulleys D, D1 by means of a belt b passing over a tightening sprocket-wheel s. On either side of shaft L are two wing-frames t and l mounted on a vertical axis so as to be capable of swinging to or from the table or carrier. ln the outer ends of the said wing-frames are journaled the respective vertical shafts CZ and (Z1 which are also rotated by the belt Z). Cn shaft CZ is a pulley F and on shaft d1 is a similar pulley F1. Secondary wing-frames c and al are jointed to the outer ends of the respective wingframes t, t1 and carry respectively the vertical shafts g and g1, the former provided with a pulley H and the latter with a pulley H1. Each of the four wing-frames is separately adjustable to or from the table or carrier by links and set-screws engaging the fixed rail E. Over the pulleys F and H1 runs a belt f1 and a similar parallel belt j runs over pulleys F1 and H. These belts on one side bear against the four bottles 1, :2., 3 and 4L and on the other side they pass over a drive-pulley J on shaft L. The purpose of these belts f and f1 is to keep the bottles which are in contact with them in rotation against the brush-belt G. By my arrangement ef them the belts overlap each other and are enabled to cover a longer arc on the table or carrier C without becoming slack than was possible with the single-belt arrangement of the Hamann patent mentioned above. Each belt constitutes a beltsection covering a dilferent are of the carrier or a different portion of the entire arc covered by the tnwo considered as a whole and they are driven in the same direction adjacent to the line oi travel of the bottles on the carrier.

llVhat Vl claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. ln a bottle-washer, a rotating carrier for the bottles, a brush-belt traveling in an arc concentric with the carrier and positioned to contact with the bottles on the carrier, and means for rotating the bottles upon their longitudinal axes while in contact with said brush-belt.

2. In a bottle-washer, a

rotating carrier for the bottles,

a brush-belt positioned to contact with the bottles on the carrier, a guide Jfor said brush-belt concentric With the carrier, and means for rotating the bottles upon their longitudinal axes While in contact with said brush-belt.

3. In a bottle-washer, a rotating carrier for the bottles, a brush-belt positioned to contact with the bottles on the carrier and pulleys therefor, a guide for said brush-belt comprising a series of rollers arranged concentrically with the carrier, and means for rotating the bottles upon their longitudinal axes While in contact with said brush-belt.

4C. In a bottle-Washer, a rotating carrier Jfor the bottles, a set ot' overlapping belts in contact With the bottles7 means for Washing the bottles While on the carrier, and means for driving the belts in the same direction.

5. In a bottle-Washer', a rot-ating carrier for the bottles, two overlapping belts covering an arc of the carrier, means for Washing the bottles While on the carrier and pulleys for the belts adjustable to and from the carrier.

6. In a bottle-Washer7 a rotating carrier for the bottles, tivo parallel belts covering an arc of the carrier, adjacent to the line of travel of the bottles on the carrier, means for Washing the bottles While on the carrier and means for driving the belts in the same direction.

7 In a bottle-Washer, a rotating carrier for the bottles, means for Washing the bottles While on the carrier, belt-sections adjacent to the line of travel of the bottles on the carrier but covering dilerent arcs and driving means therefor.

S. In a bottle-Washer, a rotating carrier for the bottles, means for Washing the bottles While on the carrier, belts adjacent to the line of travel of the bottles on the carrier and four pulleys for the belts mounted in bearings adjustable to and from the carrier.

IIn Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, before twvo subscribing Witnesses7 this twenty-first day of November, 1912.

CHARLES HANIANN.

IVit-nesses:

L. T. S. ERISMAN, lVnLLAcE C. DECKER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

